Many writers seem to think that the single quotation mark is a perfect choice anytime you sort of want quotation marks, but also sort of don’t: The word ‘legend’ gets thrown around a lot.

All the same rules apply to single quotation marks. So when you have a single quote mark followed by a double, that doesn’t change where the period goes. It goes inside all the quote marks.

I am trying to use xargs on a file containg a long list of other filenames in conjunction with another command. It will run for about a tenth of the file, then I guess it sees something that it ...

Hey guys,I have an app that's been deployed a while and today I get some complaint that it's crashing. So I go and investigate and narrow down the problem to a single quote that is finding it's ...

Most professional printed materials use curly quotes (including apostrophes) rather than straight quotes. We can debate whether that's a good… ...

Using single and double quotes on Linux is easy if you know a few essential rules.

After a new biographer’s take on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. brought to light that King’s widely quoted denigration of Malcolm X in a 1965 interview was apparently a fabrication by the ...

The single opening quotation mark was oriented in the wrong direction, as if it was placed after the quoted text. "So I did a little research on why this was happening.

Every once in a while, we’ll get a single anecdote that succinctly reflects a much bigger story in the economy. Last week, we got such a perspective from Walmart CFO John David Rainey after the ...